I only got to play Ape Out for about 10 minutes at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference, but those 10 minutes were packed with such a raw fury that for a few brief moments, it felt like time was standing still.
In Ape Out, you control a gorilla gone absolutely berserk for reasons that aren’t and don’t really need to be explained. Any questions I had about the “what” and “why” were immediately dashed — like an unsuspecting guard against a wall — once I broke out of my glass encasement and began my rampage throughout its first procedurally generated level.
Check out Ape Out's first trailer below, exclusively on IGN!
Ape Out was pure intensity from that moment on. With movements so fast and fluid it almost looks rotoscoped, I barreled through corridors, grabbing baddies and hurling them against walls, propelling them with the sheer force of my punches to their off-screen demise, or using them as human shields before launching them like a bowling ball towards a pair of hostiles around the corner. Every bloody splat was accompanied by an explosive cymbal crash, a musical punctuation to my violence against the frenetic beat of its drum-heavy soundtrack.
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In Ape Out, you control a gorilla gone absolutely berserk for reasons that aren’t and don’t really need to be explained. Any questions I had about the “what” and “why” were immediately dashed — like an unsuspecting guard against a wall — once I broke out of my glass encasement and began my rampage throughout its first procedurally generated level.
Check out Ape Out's first trailer below, exclusively on IGN!
Ape Out was pure intensity from that moment on. With movements so fast and fluid it almost looks rotoscoped, I barreled through corridors, grabbing baddies and hurling them against walls, propelling them with the sheer force of my punches to their off-screen demise, or using them as human shields before launching them like a bowling ball towards a pair of hostiles around the corner. Every bloody splat was accompanied by an explosive cymbal crash, a musical punctuation to my violence against the frenetic beat of its drum-heavy soundtrack.
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